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"Attitude is the lens that colors ordinary moments with meaning or monotony."
10+ Quotes by George Eliot
A curated collection of 10 inspirational quotes by George Eliot on life, wisdom, and the human experience.
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"It is never too late to be what you might have been."
— George Eliot
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"But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope."
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"All the learnin' my father paid for was a bit o' birch at one end and an alphabet at the other."
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"In spite of his practical ability, some of his experience had petrified into maxims and quotations."
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"But human experience is usually paradoxical, that means incongruous with the phrases of current talk or even current philosophy."
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"Is it not rather what we expect in men, that they should have numerous strands of experience lying side by side and never compare them with each other?"
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"We must not sit still and look for miracles up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything."
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"We must not sit still and look for miracles up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything."
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"I should like to know what is the proper function of women, if it is not to make reasons for husbands to stay at home, and still stronger reasons for bachelors to go out."